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commanders. Daniel Green’s In the Warlords’ Shadow (Green 2017)
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The hour may be growing late. Just before retiring at the end of 2022, Admiral Charles Richard, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, declared that “this Ukrainian crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup.” Citing the decline in America’s military capability relative to China’s in the western Pacific, he added: “The big one is coming.
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
“Leaders must be able to master four major tasks. Firstly, they need comprehensively to grasp the overall strategic situation in a conflict and craft the appropriate strategic approach–in essence, to get the big ideas right. Secondly, they must communicate those big ideas, the strategy, effectively throughout the breadth and depth of their organiza
... See moreTo understand how the U.S. could face defeat at the hands of a weaker insurgent enemy for the second time in a generation, we must look at the structural influences that produce our general officer corps.1 —Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling
Tim Kane • Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution
Four months later, in a speech to a luncheon given by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), General Shinseki laid out his vision for the way forward. The Army would, he contended, explore and exploit the full range of emerging technologies, including command, control and communications technology, to find the best solutions to the probl
... See moreLast accessed on • Transforming Military Power Since the Cold War
Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Eisenhower’s new commander, was an amalgam of Fox Conner and Kenyon Joyce—a military intellectual who relished leading troops in the field. Universally regarded as “a soldier’s soldier,” Krueger was a combat infantryman at heart. He was also widely respected as one of the Army’s best educated and most perceptive o
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
David Martin and John Walcott’s Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism (Martin and Walcott 1988).